Monday, June 30, 2008

Are Senators Clinton and McCain qualified to be president?

I'm still reading people I love talking about Hillary Clinton for president. I don't get it. Anyone who is still considering Hillary Clinton or John McCain as president should take a closer look at their records regarding 9/11, the greatest test of our nation in this century, though Katrina, wild fires and the Mississippi floods are testing our metal too.

"Are Senators Clinton and McCain qualified to be president?" (not that our current one is.)

Based on results, I don't think so.

9/11 Site Workers Hearing: Freddy Cordero Testimony




I know Senator McCain is not qualified based on his writing the intro to Debunking 9/11 Myths . He's sold on not dealing with what happened and why. A recent 9/11 hunger striker outside of his office, Blair Gadsby, was only able to get the promise of a meeting with Senator McCain at some point in the future, if then, to discuss the matter. A call from Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson to Senator McCain regarding 9/11 is still waiting a response.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lgEpaLVjgo

When it comes to the industrial/military/congressional complex, Senator McCain's got two of the three covered and his wife has the third. I live in Arizona. I'm not voting for Senator John McCain.

I believe it's time to follow Dwight Eisenhower's advice. To survive we must take control of our nation out of the hands of the industrial/military/congressional complex, with their toxic fuels and foods, and fix our problems now, before it's too late. Any strategy that includes a 100 year war is not one that is going to work.

I've been frustrated for years at Senator Clinton's failures in leadership during this 9/11 era. At the beginning of this crisis I expected her to call for an independent investigation; get the funds to evacuate people in the City exposed to the toxic soup called World Trade Center Dust (hemp legalization and tax would finance the process); open her office for information to help folks be safer in toxic environments; make pro-active medical attention available for those who need it dealing with World Trade Center Illness; and demand justice for those responsible.

I left 10 NY years ago when I realized the state was being run by the politically appointed via stolen elections (like zero votes for Obama in 80 Districts in New York, many in Harlem)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/nyregion/16vote.html?hp

"In the Harlem district, for instance, where the primary night returns suggested a 141 to 0 sweep by Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the vote now stands at 261 to 136. In an even more heavily black district in Brooklyn — where the vote on primary night was recorded as 118 to 0 for Mrs. Clinton — she now barely leads, 118 to 116."

generational poverty pimps, their friends and family.

When WTC 1, 2 and 7 became toxic dust, Senator Clinton was in Washington and gave a great speech on 9/12/01 in praise of the president and national resolve.

Has she yet called for an investigation into the 9/11 Truth movement which has documented thermite, a sign of explosives used, in the WTC dust?

9/13/01 is when the head of the EPA said the air was safe to breathe and the water safe to drink. She should have been their champion demanding military style respirators, ample food and rest areas, etc. for those working on the pile.

People who were there have reported that they knew the EPA was lying but they were too busy working at Ground Zero.

Did she slap the EPA for lying about the dangers in the dust either then or later when it came out that the White House altered the EPA's 9/11 report? Though the city's sewers keeps air quality checks going because they are open, we were told only EPA data was available. She did not demand to see the City air quality numbers to double check EPA data, like when she signed onto this war.

How could she have not known that exposure to toxic chemicals can kill people?

After years of her ineffective strategy of study the problem, rather than take an active role in reducing the effects of World Trade Center Illness (registry vs. health care), she's now getting help for on site workers. But what about the people who live and work in the area? Many are already dead. Sick people have marched on Washington for attention since their representatives (not just Senator Clinton) failed to represent THEM in D.C. by delivering solutions to the problems New Yorkers face.

Senator Clinton was elected to do a job...represent NY in the Senate. The senate controls a lot of power, which could have been used to clean up the area (they are still finding body parts in the area as of this year).

Here's the short list of toxins folks were exposed to from Senator Clinton supporter:

Natural Resources Defense Council

WTC TOXIC MATERIAL LISTFROM NRDC REPORT



Item
Amount


Building Materials
1.2 million tons
Jet Fuel
thousands of gallons
Dioxins

Mercury from computers and light bulbs

Asbestos
300-400 Tons
Concrete
424,000 Tons
Fiberglass

Lead from 50,000 Personal Computers - 4 lbs. ea.
200,000 lbs
Main Frame Computers
300
Wire and cables
Hundreds of miles
Transformer Oil contaminated with PCB's
130,000 gallons

From Plastics (still looking for amounts)

Polyvinyl

Chloride

Copper

Furans

polybrominated diphenyl ethers

Small hazardous waste generating entities


NRDC has estimated that there were approximately 50,000 pc's in the World Trade Center with 4 lbs of lead each. 50,000 X 4 = 200,000 lbs of lead just from the pc's. Office furniture, fabrics and human remains were transformed into dust in the time it took for the two towers to fall. Rescue workers report that they didn't find a computer, desk or chair.

The area is not cleaned yet, not even in the homes because asbestos does not wash out in the laundry.

The senate also has the ability to call for a vetted investigation into what really happened on 9/11. 19 lucky Arabs who just happened to pick the day when the military was engaged in war games is not standing up to the truth. Instead we got the 9/11 Commission report which speaks loud and long but says nothing.

Please check out Senator Clinton's activities on and after 9/11. The toxic dust spread all over the place and did not stop at 14th Street as reported. Is it possible she did not know that paper from the WTC was found on Long Island, yet the government said the dust stopped on 14th Street. The city was put on lock down. Why was she not on the phone with the call GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT OF THERE!!!!?




Why was there not one aircraft carrier with the ability to respond to a crisis paying attention to protecting New York, Washington, Pennsylvania...? How is this O.K. with her since the senate helps appropriate and approve the military budget?

Based on her response to 9/11 so far, I don't think Senator Clinton is qualified to be president yet.

By the way, when I contacted Senator Clinton at the time I was told that she only responds to material from New York and contact my senator. I did and was told IF there was a problem Senators Clinton and Schumer would handle it and they said nothing. Since they don't to listen to me, I've been posting initially on the New York Times site Abuzz and over the years I've put up notes on the subject of World Trade Center Illness at www.geocities.com/cureworks2. Still haven't heard from her.

I'm voting for Senator Obama as the next president. With the 5% Black blood rule, which use to be enough to get a person lynched, we've already had 5 Black Presidents, Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Harding and Coolidge according to Dr. Leroy Vaughn, MD, MBA, Historian were Black. During their era's were some of the greatest times of this nation. Jefferson and Jackson organized us. Lincoln freed and unified us. Harding and Coolidge were the Roaring 20's.

Senator Obama is a smart, Harvard educated lawyer. His call for change has the potential to open a floodgate of common sense. Use the truth razor of only the truth is true.

Please, just keep your eyes and mind open. Learning is change and to be effective, it must include all of us. I'm sure, as we work together to build a better nation, based on freedom, truth and justice, we will discover and implement ways to heal. Together, we are getting to what Willie Nelson calls A PEACEFUL SOLUTION.

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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

National Security - Senator Barack Obama's Analysis

Five years ago today, President George W. Bush launched a war that should never have been authorized based on faulty premises and bad intelligence.

This war has now lasted longer than World War I, World War II, or the Civil War.

Nearly four thousand Americans have given their lives. Thousands more have been wounded. Even under the best-case scenarios, this war will cost American taxpayers well over a trillion dollars.

And where are we for all of this sacrifice?

We are less safe and less able to shape events abroad. We are divided at home, and our alliances around the world have been strained. The threats of a new century have roiled the waters of peace and stability, and yet America remains anchored in Iraq.

I am running for President because it's time to turn the page on a failed ideology and a fundamentally flawed political strategy, so that we can make pragmatic judgments to keep our country safe.

That's what I did when I stood up and opposed this war from the start and said that we needed to finish the fight against al Qaeda. And that's what I'll do as President of the United States.
Please take a few minutes to read my strategy for ending the war in Iraq and making America safer. I hope you will sign on and show your support:

http://my.barackobama.com/fiveyearslater

Senator Clinton says that she and Senator McCain have passed a "Commander-in-Chief test" -- not because of the judgments they've made, but because of the years they've spent in Washington.

She made a similar argument when she said her vote for war was based on her experience at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

But here is the stark reality: there is a security gap in this country -- a gap between the rhetoric of those who claim to be tough on national security, and the reality of growing insecurity caused by their decisions.

It is time to have a debate with Senator McCain about the future of our national security. And the way to win that debate and keep America safe is to offer a clear contrast -- a clean break from the failed policies and politics of the past.

Nowhere is that break more badly needed than in Iraq.

Join me in supporting an end to this war and a plan for a safer America:

http://my.barackobama.com/fiveyearslater

The judgment that matters most on Iraq -- and on any decision to deploy military force -- is the judgment made first.

If you believe we are fighting the right war, then the problems we face are purely tactical in nature. That is what Senator McCain wants to discuss -- tactics. What he and the Administration have failed to present is an overarching strategy: how the war in Iraq enhances our long-term security, or will in the future.

That's why this Administration cannot answer the simple question posed by Senator John Warner in hearings last year: Are we safer because of this war? And that is why Senator McCain can argue -- as he did last year -- that we couldn't leave Iraq because violence was up, and then argue this year that we can't leave Iraq because violence is down.

When you have no overarching strategy, there is no clear definition of success.

Success comes to be defined as the ability to maintain a flawed policy indefinitely. Here is the truth: fighting a war without end will not force the Iraqis to take responsibility for their own future. And fighting in a war without end will not make the American people safer.

When I am Commander-in-Chief, I will set a new goal on Day One: I will end this war. Not because politics compels it. Not because our troops cannot bear the burden -- as heavy as it is. But because it is the right thing to do for our national security, and it will ultimately make us safer.

Show your support for a clear strategy to end the war in Iraq and focus our national security efforts on making America safer:

http://my.barackobama.com/fiveyearslater

Here are the core elements of my strategy to address our critical national security challenges in the 21st century:

End the war in Iraq, removing our troops at a pace of 1 to 2 combat brigades per month;
Finally finish the fight against the Taliban, root out al Qaeda and invest in the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan, while making aid to the Pakistani government conditional;
Act aggressively to stop nuclear proliferation and to secure all loose nuclear materials around the world;

Double our foreign assistance to cut extreme poverty in half;

Invest in a clean energy future to wean the U.S. off of foreign oil and to lead the world against the threat of global climate change;

Rebuild our military capability by increasing the number of soldiers, marines, and special forces troops, and insist on adequate training and time off between deployments;

Renew American diplomacy by talking to our adversaries as well as our friends; increasing the size of the Foreign Service and the Peace Corps; and creating an America's Voice Corps.

Please take a minute to show your support for this plan:
http://my.barackobama.com/fiveyearslater

We are at a defining moment in our history.

This must be the election when America comes together behind a common purpose on behalf of our security and our values.

That is what we do as Americans. It's how we founded a republic based on freedom, and faced down fascism. It's how we defended democracy through a Cold War, and shined a light of hope bright enough to be seen in the darkest corners of the world.

When America leads with principle and pragmatism, hope can triumph over fear. It is time, once again, for America to lead.

Thank you,

Barack Obama

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